cobA, a red fluorescent transcriptional reporter for Escherichia coli, yeast, and mammalian cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1175-1178

  Wildt, Stefan ^a,b   Deuschle, Ulrich ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

cobA; Red fluorescence; Reporter gene; Uroporphyrinogen III methyltransferase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UROPORPHYRINOGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENES, REPORTER; METHYLTRANSFERASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032764550     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70713     Document Type: Article

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